so to my left you have beautiful jackson square. to my right, the mighty mississippi river, blue skies here. it is picture perfect for what will be a huge, huge celebration. so i'm sitting atop jack's brewery right now, just behind me this is what you'll see on tv tonight, we'll be coming to you live for midnight, both eastern and central time, you get the fleur-de-lis drop, baby new year which i don't even know how to describe this, if you don't know in new orleans, it is the amazing tradition, found this baby floating post katrina, it is part of the celebration. imagine, deb, you have new orleans which i'm sure you've been here, it is crazy and you don't sleep and you party all night anyway. take that, add new year's eve, add the sugar bowl, and you have probably -- they're estimating some 50,000 people. just quickly, i'll be down here in the french quarter, with, you know, the rest of the crew, and different parts of the country, ringing in the new year with kathy and anderson. i won't be ready to go to bed. i'm going to keep the